The Muhlenberg mens lacrosse team turned up the defense in the
second half against Ursinus, but could not find the offense to make a
comeback and lost, 8-5.

The Mules (5-8, 0-7) outshot the Bears, 21-9, and gave up just two goals
to the Bears (6-7, 2-5) after the break, but could not overcome a 6-2
halftime deficit. Berg sophomore Galen Marsh scored three
goals, the last of which cut the Ursinus lead to 7-4 with 12:48 left.
Muhlenberg did not score again until the final minute.

Junior Bradley Lutzer and sophomore Jay Hoffman led the Mule
defensive effort. Lutzer grabbed a team-high eight ground balls, most of
them after knocking the ball away from a Bear attackman. Hoffman stopped
eight shots and allowed three goals.

Junior Gregg Burkhart scattered eight hits in his first nine-inning
complete game of the year and was backed up by a 16-hit attack as the
Muhlenberg baseball team won its next-to-last game of the year, 9-2 at
Kings.

After allowing two runs on three hits in the first inning, Burkhart gave
up just five hits the rest of the way. He struck out seven to finish the
season with 61 whiffs, tying for the fifth-highest total in team history.

The Mules (12-17-1) climbed out of the early 2-0 hole with back-to-back
four-run innings in the second and third, both started by senior Joel
Rush.

Singles by Rush and freshman Ryan Sassaman, along with an infield
error, loaded the bases with nobody out in the second. Muhlenberg tied the
score on a line-drive single to right by junior Aaron Regensburg
and an infield hit by freshman Chad Hegstrom. After a double play,
freshman Mike Hart drove home the go-ahead runs with a triple to
center.

Hart is the first Mule to hit six triples in a season since 1987.

Rush doubled to right-center with one out in the third. Sassaman then
singled and stole second, and senior Adam Sadler brought in both
runners with a single down the left-field line. Sadler scored on an
infield error, and Hegstrom, who reached base on the second of his three
singles, came in when the catchers throw to pick him off third went
down the left-field line.

Muhlenberg had 10 hits in the first three innings, with eight of them
coming from the bottom five spots in the lineup.

The game remained 8-2 until the top of the ninth, when freshman Pete
Oris led off with his second home run of the season  his second
in the city of Wilkes-Barre. Oris also started a game-ending double play
in the bottom of the inning.